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The tradition of the Stellenbosch University Annual Library Symposium of being a platform for discussing new library and information services and developments will continue at the 14th Annual Library Symposium in November 2016. The discussion will be turned to the shaping of the academic library of the future. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of adapting to users’ needs, adapting to new roles as librarians, adapting as a library, empowerment of staff and clients and the importance of partnerships and engagement.

The theme is partly based on the recent OCLC report, Shaping the Library to the life of the user: adapting, empowering, partnering, engaging. In this report it becomes clear that “research and learning needs are changing. Higher education is reconfiguring. As a result of these massive changes, the library must pivot and adapt”. The following core themes are mentioned in this report: to empower users, to empower the library, form partnerships and to engage the campus community. The report advises libraries to be able to “move from offering a fixed set of services to a ‘constant beta’ mode of service evolution” .

Three different sessions will focus on the following themes, all related to the shaping of the academic library of the future:

4.
“What Makers are doing is taking the DIY movement online– “making
in public”—which introduces network effects on a massive scale.”
A cultural norm to share those designs and collaborate with others in online
communities.
The use of common design ﬁle standards that allow anyone, if they
desire, to send their designs to commercial manufacturing services to
be produced in any number, just as easily as they can fabricate them
on their desktop.
People using digital desktop tools to create designs for new products and
prototype them (“digital DIY”)
Chris Anderson: Makers, The New Industrial Revolution, p. 21
Maker Movement

5.
Makerspaces:
Exist to bring individual makers into a space with shared
resources;
Are spaces in which experienced makers can teach skills and guide the progress of
newer makers;
Allow for the sharing ideas and designs not just within the makerspace,
but outward to the larger world of makers;
Enable individuals to collaborate on projects and bring multiple perspectives and
skill sets together;
Encourage individuals to experiment and discover through tinkering with
technologies and products and to approach making with a spirit of play.

7.
Lawrence Lessig
“The importance is that technique
has been democratized. These tools
of creativity have become tools of
speech. It is a literacy for this
generation. This is how our kids
speak. It is how our kids think. It is
what your kids are as they
increasingly understand digital
technologies and their relationship
to themselves.”

9.
Cory Doctorow
“Damn right libraries shouldn’t be
book-lined Internet cafes. They
should be book-lined, computer-
ﬁlled information-dojos where
communities come together to
teach each other black-belt
information literacy, where
initiates work alongside noviates
to show them how to master the
tools of the networked age from
the bare metal up.”

10.
David Lankes
“The mission of librarians is to
improve society through
facilitating knowledge creation in
their communities”

11.
Doug Belshaw
“My belief is that the concept of 'remix'
is at the heart of digital literacies.”
Doug Belshaw, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies:
http://dougbelshaw.com/ebooks/digilit/

21.
“It’s the oldest profession in the world,
apart from the other one.”
Ellen Tise, about librarianship:

22.
Public Library makerspace?
Makerspaces or FabLabs are creative, DIY spaces where people can
gather to create, invent, and learn. In libraries they often have 3D
printers, software, electronics, craft and hardware supplies and
tools, and more.

24.
Academic Library makerspace?
“By and large, these makerspaces are not associated with any one
department. Indeed, that's the argument that many librarians are
making about opening makerspaces with them. The library is
already open to the entire campus community -- students and
faculty of all disciplines.”
Audrey Watters: http://hackeducation.com/2013/02/06/the-case-for-a-campus-makerspace

25.
“Libraries provide resources for not only consuming information,
but also for generating new information and research, which is at
the heart of any academic institution. Makerspaces and 3D
printing provide the perfect opportunity for the generation of new
knowledge.”
Pryor, S. (2014), “Implementing a 3D printing service in an academic library”, Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 51 No. 1, pp. 1-10.
Academic Library makerspace?